Question #b504a

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Apr 6, 2017

D.) It temporarily relieved sectional tensions.

Explanation:

Tensions between the slave states and non slave states was mounting in congress. Neither side wanted to see other gain power. The Missouri Compromise was an attempt to relieve those tensions. Missouri wanted to be admitted as a slave state. This resulted in an agreement to admit Maine as a non slave state. Ultimately this compromise crumbled and Civil War broke out as the South attempted to secede from the union.